Mitt Romney's campaign team is panicked, and rushed the announcement of his VP pick — on a weekend, mind you, when all but political junkies are following the news — in a desperate attempt at "game change." The choice of Ryan will lose Florida for Romney, and it's hard to see how Ryan does anything except consolidate the austerity/social conservative wing of the GOP and maybe (emphasis on maybe) fend off chicanery by the Ron Paul wing of the party at the Republican Convention.

[Rep. Howard "Buck"] McKeon, who poses as a devout Mormon, is addicted to gambling. And he's a loser. What [Majority Whip Kevin] McCarthy's staffers have leaked is that he's lost very large sums of money at [Sheldon] Adelson's casino. He hasn't reported these losses — which is a crime.